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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






2. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






3. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






4. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






5. The organizational form of a literary work.






6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






7. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






8. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






9. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






10. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






12. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






13. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






14. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






15. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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16. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






17. Broken down acts.






18. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






19. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






20. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






21. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






23. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






24. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






25. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






26. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






27. The main character of a literary work.






28. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






29. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






30. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






31. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






32. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






33. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






34. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






35. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






36. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






37. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






38. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






39. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






40. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






41. A strong pause within a line.






42. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






43. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






44. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






45. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






46. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






47. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






48. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






49. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






50. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.







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